THE SAGINAW MATCH COMPANY, PETITIONER,

v.

THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY

Citator

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• Life Savers Corp. v. Curtiss Candy Co., 182 F.2d 4 (7th Cir. 1950)
  …mes in decisions and textbooks.” Campbell Soup Co. et al. v. Armour & Co., 3 Cir., 175 F. 2d 795, 798. As a rule color cannot be monopolized to distinguish a product. Diamond Match Co. v. Saginaw Match Co., 6 Cir., 142 F. 727, 729, certiorari denied 203 U.S. 589, 27 S.Ct. 776, 51 L.Ed. 330. Color is not subject to trade-mark monopoly except in connection with some definite arbitrary symbol or design. James Heddon’s Sons v. Millsite Steel & Wire Works, Inc., 6 Cir., 128 F. 2d 6, 9. In the Campbell Soup Co. c…
• VAL Marine Corp. v. Costas, 256 F.2d 911 (2d Cir. 1958)
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• In re Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 774 F.2d 1116 (Fed. Cir. 1985)
  …imited number of colors in the palette, and that it is not wise policy to foster further limitation by permitting trademark registrants to deplete the reservoir. See, e.g., Diamond Match Co. v. Saginaw Match Co., 142 F. 727 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 203 U.S. 589, 27 S.Ct. 776, 51 L.Ed. 330 (1906); International Braid Co. v. Thomas French & Sons, Ltd., 150 F. 2d 142, 66 USPQ 109 (CCPA 1945). This theory is not faulted for appropriate application, but following passage of the Lanham Act courts have declined t…